Through the Eyes of a Woman

  It is always awesome to see what women have achieved despite all the roadblocks that were placed on their way. On May 8, in the series of meetings focusing on 150 years of Adventist Missions, the Women’s Ministries group in Tübingen (Germany) looked at women who pioneered in the medical professions in the early times of the Seventh-day Adventist church. It was interesting to see that the first sanatorium was established only three years after the church's founding and that the first doctor at the Western Health Reform Institute (1866) was a woman. This doctor, Phebe Lamson, was convinced that healthy food, simple dress, pure water, clean air, rest and exercise, sunshine, a happy disposition are the basis for good health and that almost everything can be cured or alleviated with hydrotherapy. This sounds very much like the NEWSTART program the church is using today to propagate healthy living. As the church spread to other areas and continents, health work was always at the foref

  Looking back at history is not always dry as dust. Information can also be conveyed playfully. This was the case at the women's meeting on April 3 in the church in Tübingen, Germany, when the focus was on the women in the early history of the Adventist Church who were active in preaching the Word as evangelists, Bible workers, and pastors. It was also about the opportunities for women to get involved in preaching, which were greater in the early days than in the early 20th century after the death of Ellen G. White. An interesting and sad development! There was a lot of laughter during the board game, and the nets in both boats filled up with “fish” even though the male pawn usually got a few points ahead of the female pawn. With much admiration for the life achievements of the women Minnie Sype, Ellen Lane, Sarah Lindsay, Maud Boyd, Helen Williams, and Lulu Wightman as preachers despite many difficulties, we realized that God can use, has used, and will to use women The first e